Ethics in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 2nd Edition

Name: Ethics in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
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Edited by Heather Draper, BA, MA, PhD and Wendy E. Scott, MBChB, FRCA, DRCOG

A group of expert contributors have provided perspectives on areas of common concern to the anaesthetist and intensivist, and nursing staff, giving both the clinical and theoretical perspective. By understanding the underlying principles, the reader will be able to create their own framework from which to reach a decision. It is anticipated that the arguments given may challenge the reader's personal ethical stance. Those who are new to ethics will find the examples given help them to see how these underlying principles are put into everyday practice.

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Expert contributors from around the world discuss ethical issues in anaesthesia and intensive care in all of the commonly encountered areas such as:

Consent

Patient confidentiality

Fitness to practice

Whistle-blowing on colleagues

Clinical research

Maternal-foetal conflicts

Children

Palliative care

Withdrawing and withholding therapy

Euthanasia

Infectious disease control

Each chapter focuses on the needs of the clinician, presenting both the underlying principles and how these are used in practice

Real cases are used to illustrate the principles, and to highlight how these are interpreted in each case

Author Information

Edited by Heather Draper, BA, MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics, The Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham and Wendy E. Scott, MBChB, FRCA, DRCOG, Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby City General Hospital, Derby, UK

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ISBN Number	9780750653534
Description Author List	Edited by Heather Draper, BA, MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics, The Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham and Wendy E. Scott, MBChB, FRCA, DRCOG, Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby City General Hospital, Derby, UK
Copyright Year	2003
Edition Number	2
Format	Book
Trim	156w x 234h
Imprint	Butterworth-Heinemann
Page Count	272
Publication Date	11 Jul 2003
Stock Status	Please allow 7-10 working days for delivery

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction
Heather Draper
2. Consent and Adult Patients in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
Alan Aitkenhead
3. Fitness to Practice, Self-regulation and Clinical Governance in Anaesthesia
David Hatch
4. Confidentiality, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
Catherine Hale
5. Cultural Relativism, Tolerance and Respect for Autonomy
Andrew Fagan
6. Ethical and Legal Issues Affecting the Treatment of Children
Nicholas Pace
7. Clinical Research
Mike Harmer
8. Research Ethics
Richard Nicholson
9. Evidence Based Medicine and Anaesthesia
Lucy Frith
10. Maternal Foetal Conflicts and the Anaesthetists' Role
Wendy Scott, Heather Draper
11. Resource Allocation in Critical Care
Richard Wenstone, June Jones
12. Ethical Management in Intensive Care
June Jones
13. Withdrawing and Withholding Life Sustaining Therapy and Euthanasia
Heather Draper
14. Brain Death and the Cadaveric Organ Donor
David Lamb
15. The Acceptability of Routine Testing for Blood Borne Communicable Diseases
Rebecca Bennett
16. Teaching and Assessing Medical Ethics
Lisa Schwartz
17. Ethical Issues in Private Practice
Chris Bareham, Tom Sorrell

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